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“It is believed that Bilal had beaten a female worker at the store
and grabbed her by the throat prior to officers’ arrival. Bilal
reportedly had become upset while attempting to convert the employee to
Islam.”
Well, if she didn’t immediately see the light of Islam, you can see why he was upset.
“According to reports, Bilal then went on to break an officer’s hand
after an attempt to place Bilal into custody….He faces preliminary
charges of battery on police, resisting law enforcement, disorderly
conduct, battery with injury, intimidation and strangulation.”
Quite an eventful dawah session! And much, much more of this sort of
thing is coming, in Muncie and elsewhere in the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
“Police: Man tased after striking officer, yelling ‘Allah Akbar’ in Goodwill scuffle,” WISH, March 28, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — One man is facing charges after he
struck an officer for attempting to restrain him following a commotion
in Muncie.
It happened just before 2 p.m. Saturday inside a Goodwill store when officers were responding to a call for a fight.
Upon arrival, officials found 24-year-old Khalid Bilal confronting store employees.
According to reports, Bilal then went on to break an officer’s hand after an attempt to place Bilal into custody.
Bilal was later tased after charging another officer that arrived on
scene. After the tasing, the officer was eventually able to corral Bilal
into handcuffs. The suspect then began to kick the officer repeatedly
with both legs, causing authorities to shackle his legs.
Reports stated that Bilal was yelling “Allah Akbar” throughout the ordeal.
One customer told 24-Hour News 8 she was scared for her life. She was
inside the store shopping with her three children when she heard a man
screaming at the front.
“A guy had become very irate and was screaming at one of the
employees and then grabbed him by the collar and start pushing him and
screaming are you scared,” said Chasity Fraley, customer.
“He was just so full of rage and violence I never seen anything like that before,” Fraley added.
Not sure what was going on, Fraley said she began moving her kids.
“We moved to a different aisle… so I could take my kids away from the
situation because they got very scared at that point and then I heard
him say ‘I’m going to kill everyone in here,”’ she said.
That’s when Fraley says a female employee stepped in trying to calm the man down.
“With her, she kinda used a softer tone with him at first, ‘let’s
talk about this, what’s the matter can we take it outside,’” Fraley
recalled.
But out of nowhere, she said the man attacked that employee.
“He violently grabbed her around the neck and just was punching and
whatever he could to her,” she said. “A bunch of employees came out to
keep him away from customers.”
It is believed that Bilal had beaten a female worker at the store and
grabbed her by the throat prior to officers’ arrival. Bilal reportedly
had become upset while attempting to convert the employee to Islam.
Fraley believes employees handled the situation very well.
“They were protecting one another and protecting us they (did) an
excellent job at keeping him in a somewhat secured area,” she said.
“They were telling people to get back trying to protect people in the
store and one another.”
Police said the man was taken to the hospital and continued to attack officers when they tried to restrain him.
Once at the hospital for treatment, Bilal went on to strike an
officer three times when the officer attempted to secure a restraint
that held Bilal to a hospital bed.
He faces preliminary charges of battery on police, resisting law
enforcement, disorderly conduct, battery with injury, intimidation and
strangulation….
“Silicon Valley fund gives $330 thousand to CAIR, Islamic Relief,” by Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva, March 28, 2017:
The Middle East Forum research center has revealed that
the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has donated a total of
over $330,000 to two extremist organizations: the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief.
The Philadelphia-based Forum contacted SVCF with evidence of the
extremist links of CAIR and Islamic Relief, but received no response.
The Middle East Forum is now publicly calling for an immediate and
permanent termination of SCVF’s funding of these organizations, and has
started a nationwide campaign to this end.
The SVCF is the country’s wealthiest community foundation, with more
than $8 billion in assets. It has enjoyed positive press coverage during
its 10-year history, but has also come under some criticism. Worst of
all, the MEF states, is its flowing generosity to the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief.
MEF says it privately contacted SVCF last month with evidence of the
extremism of CAIR and Islamic Relief, including the bigotries and
prejudices of its officials and speakers. SVCF officials essentially
“refused to discuss the matter,” MEF reports, but rather “engaged in a
flurry of ad hominem attacks on the Forum.”
It is “unconscionable that such a leading institution as SVCF, which
claims to support ‘understanding and tolerance,'” should help
organizations that rely on ignorance and hatred,” the Forum declares.
“To be precise, CAIR and Islamic Relief have a long history of providing
platforms to speakers who denigrate and threaten women, Jews,
Christians, the LGBTQ community, and Muslims belonging to minority
sects.”
As examples, the Forum cites regular speakers at the two
organizations’ events who have rationalized honor killings or said that
men may beat or rape their wives. “It should not be politically
divisive,” the Forum states, “to state that these ideas are incompatible
with SVCF’s self-proclaimed commitment to diversity and tolerance.”
SVCF did say that CAIR is in “good standing with [U.S.] federal
agencies,” but the MEF counters that the FBI and the Justice Department
have blacklisted CAIR since it was named an unindicted co-conspirator
during a terrorism financing case in 2008. Both CAIR and Islamic Relief
are designated as terrorist groups in the United Arab Emirates, while
the Anti-Defamation League has said that CAIR promotes anti-Jewish
sentiment….
Charlotte City Forum About No-Parking Outside Of Abortion Clinic
Published on Mar 29, 2017
On
Monday, March 27th, activists from both pro-life and pro-choice groups
showed up to the Charlotte city council to speak their mind about the
new no-parking signs the city wants to install outside of the Latrobe
Abortion Clinic.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hundreds of Christians flooded the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center on Monday night to stand
against a request from abortion advocacy groups that would ban a mobile
pro-life pregnancy center from parking outside of an abortion facility.
For more than a decade, both pro-life and pro-abortion residents have
gathered outside of A Preferred Women’s Health Center, with numbers
fluctuating from dozens to thousands. On a regular basis, pro-lifers
offer literature and free assistance, as well as gift bags to mothers
who decide not to go through with their appointment with death.
Because of the volume of traffic at the location, the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has now requested that the
Charlotte Department of Transportation study potential changes. The
abortion facility and its advocates have also requested that “no
parking” signs be placed in the immediate area.
They claim that the mobile pregnancy center and the signs displayed by pro-lifers cause traffic visibility hazards.
“This is about patient safety and safety of staff and traffic and
even neighboring businesses that are having issues delivering services
to people as needed due to the influx of people on Latrobe,” facility
administrator Calla Hales told TWC News Charlotte.
But members of the group Cities4Life note that the work of the Monroe
HELP Center, which offers free help to mothers, would be hindered if
the “no parking” signs are installed. They believe that abortion
advocacy groups and the city are just trying to get rid of them.
“We’re there … where and when they most need it,” center volunteer
Vicki Kaseorg testified on Monday. “[It] would not be possible if all
these regulations to limit our ability to do so were enacted.”
Lakilra Flowe, a mother who chose life because of the mobile HELP
Center, stood by Kaseorg’s side, holding her infant child and nodding in
agreement. Flowe now volunteers herself to help save lives outside of
the abortion facility. As previously reported, Courtney
Parks, a nurse with the ministry, told Christian News Network in 2015
that the RV parks along the street four times a week, and has been a
blessing in the lives of many women. Flowe holds her baby—saved from abortion—as Kaseorg speaks.“We’ve
had many instances where these ladies think that there is nothing in
their womb but what the liberal media tells them—it’s just a clump of
cells, just a blob of tissue, nothing there—and when I’m able to show
them their eight-week little baby in their womb with a heartbeat, arms
and legs moving around, …. it kind of turns a light bulb on in their
head,” she explained, noting that some mothers have even seen their
babies sucking their thumb.
“I’ve had so many women say, ‘That’s my baby!”” Parks continued.
“People are just so grateful for us standing for the truth and standing
for the babies. … They see you care, they see you want to help them and
it makes them want to choose life for their baby.”
She said that hundreds have been saved from abortion each year
because of those who have been ministering outside of abortion
facilities in the city. A number of the women are gifted with baby
showers and provided with presents to help them in welcoming their
bundle of joy.
On Monday, so many Christians—all donning teal “love life Charlotte”
t-shirts—packed the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center that there
were not enough seats in the chambers or the overflow room to hold them
all. The rest gathered in the lobby exhorting one another, praying for
the unborn and singing songs of praise.
“[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police] notified CDOT of recent pedestrian
and traffic changes along Latrobe Dr.,” CDOT Director Danny Pleasant
told the Charlotte Observer. “CDOT is in the process of evaluating
operations along the street to check for adequate sight distances at
driveways. So far, CDOT has made no decision to change parking
regulations in the vicinity.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California state prosecutors
have charged the pro-life investigator behind the 2014-2015 undercover
Planned Parenthood videos with 15 felonies less than a year after Texas
officials dropped all charges.
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra alleges that David Daleiden of
the Center for Medical Progress, along with his co-worker Sandra
Merritt, wrongfully recorded Planned Parenthood employees and others
without their consent in capturing the undercover footage.
Daleiden is therefore charged with 14 counts of covertly recording confidential conversations—one for each person—and one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.
“The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California’s Constitution,
and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society,” Becerra
said, according to the LA Times. “[We] will not tolerate the criminal
recording of confidential conversations.”
Daleiden said in a statement that he believes prosecutors are going after the wrong party.
“The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their
business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics—currently being
prosecuted in California—who have harvested and sold aborted baby body
parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal
law,” he remarked.
Daleiden advised that additional videos are forthcoming, which he
plans on “showing the entire world … in vindication of the First
Amendment rights of all.”
As previously reported, Daleiden, 28, had posed as a representative of a fetal tissue
procurement company in order to engage in discussions with Planned
Parenthood officials as a potential buyer of bodily organs. He recorded
the interactions, conducted at various locations across the country, as
part of his “human capital” investigative series that was released
beginning in July 2015.
The first of nearly a dozen videos released
by CMP featured Planned Parenthood Medical Director Deborah Nucatola,
who nonchalantly munched on salad and sipped wine as she talked about
adjusting the child so as not to crush certain organs due to the demand
for the body part.
“I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most
providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know
where they’re putting their forceps,” she explained.
“[Y]ou’re just kind of cognizant where you put your graspers,”
Nucatola outlined. “You try to intentionally go above and below the
thorax, so that—-you know. We’ve been very good at getting the heart,
lung, liver, because we know that, so ‘I’m not gonna crush that part.
I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna
see if I can get it all intact.’”
The second video
showed Mary Gatter, the president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical
Directors Council, haggling with the undercover investigators about the
compensation for the fetal organs, laughing, “I want a Lamborghini.”
Other footage showed an actual aborted baby being dissected in a dish,
with an assistant declaring, “Another boy!” and another video showed an abortionist laughing about how harvesting an intact baby head would be “something to strive for.”
Planned Parenthood apologized
for the insensitive “tone” of the first video, but denied that it
profits from its agreements with scientific organizations. It soon
announced that it would stop receiving reimbursement
for “expenses” surrounding the provision of body parts of aborted
babies. The abortion giant argued that the dead babies were beneficial
in research to find cures for diseases.
The organization also contended that the videos were misleading
because they had been edited, but the Center for Medical Progress
also publicly posted the hours-long unedited footage for viewing as
well.
In January of last year, the Harris County district attorney’s office in Texas charged Daleiden
with a felony count of “tampering with a governmental record” for
creating a fake driver’s license in conducting his undercover
investigation, as well as a misdemeanor count related to the purchasing
of aborted babies. All charges, which centered on Daleiden’s undercover
investigations in Texas, were dismissed by the end of July.
However, in the meantime, representatives for Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California at the time, searched Daleiden’s apartment
and seized all of his videos from the undercover investigation.
Daleiden posted a statement afterward, remarking that the investigation
was lopsided as Harris’ office ignored information surrounding the
working relationship between former buyer StemExpress and Planned
Parenthood.
StemExpress discontinued its work with the abortion giant after CMP
released videos revealing its involvement with the organization.
Planned Parenthood partner DaVinci Biosciences and its sister company DV Biologics were then sued
last October by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckus after
he found evidence that the company had profited from the bodily organs
of aborted babies.
“From 2009 to 2015, the defendants obtained aborted fetus donations
from Planned Parenthood and turned those donations into a profit-driven
business,” he declared.
“They did so by selling tissues and cells from the heart, lungs,
kidneys, brain, intestines, skeletal muscle and bones of the aborted
fetus donations.”
Rackauckus outlined that the companies hired a marketing consultant
to create promotional materials, including a catalog, to boost sales.
His office found that profits included up to $674 in profit for each
fetal heart, up to $233 in profit for each liver, up to $221 in in
profit for each stomach, and up to $664 in profit for each small
intestine.
The companies are accused of generating $1.5 million in sales, while also marking up shipping and processing costs.
The Congressional Select Panel on Infant Lives also issued numerous criminal referrals last year while investigating Planned Parenthood and its partners, including an allegation that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast unlawfully sold baby body parts to the University of Texas.
It likewise came to believe from evidence that the University of New Mexico violated of the state’s Anatomical Gift Act, that Stem Express
violated HIPPA to increase the harvesting of body parts for profit, and
that DV Biologics received revenue for the body parts of aborted
babies.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee separately issued his own letter and report calling for the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a federal investigation.
Specifically, the Committee noted in its report
that StemExpress, Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) and Novogenics
Laboratories purchased the bodily organs of aborted babies from several
California Planned Parenthood locations, and then resold them at
substantially higher prices. The organizations are also accused of
hiking the prices above costs for “transportation, implantation,
processing, preservation, quality control or storage of” the body parts.
“[I]n June of 2014, an ABR technician obtained a 20-week-old fetus at
a Planned Parenthood clinic, for which it paid $60,” the report
outlines. “From that one fetus, ABR sold its brain to one customer for
$325, both of its eyes for $325 each ($650 total) to a second customer, a
portion of its liver for $325 to a third customer, its thymus for $325
and another portion of its liver for $325 to a fourth customer, and its
lung for $325 to a fifth customer.”
StemExpress is accused of similar actions, paying Planned Parenthood
$55 for a baby and then selling his or her body parts for $250 each,
making $1000 from just one child.
The Committee also noted that despite Planned Parenthood’s “constant
statements to the media that [its] affiliates had merely been recovering
their costs” in receiving payment from ABR, StemExpress and other
companies, its attorneys told the investigative Congressional panel that
the Planned Parenthood offices only sought to determine their costs
after-the-fact in light of national scrutiny.
“Around that time, Planned Parenthood announced it would no longer
accept any payments in connection with its fetal tissue transfer
programs,” Grassley explained.
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Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University, was recently
selected as the new president of Eastern Nazarene College, which is also
being discussed as a possible merger with Trevecca. He will step in
sometime after Dr. Corlis McGee leaves her current position later in the
summer. The “leaders” of the denomination are cheering, no doubt. They
have always been complicit, or at the very least willfully ignorant,
with everything that has been destroying the Nazarene denomination
spiritually.
I am not surprised at this choice. Dr. Boone and Dr. McGee share some
views that make this selection understandable. To many of us who have
voiced our concerns about the denomination for years, it further
indicates full steam ahead towards a practical marriage between
Nazarenes and Roman Catholics. The only major item that will be missing
soon is to have pope Francis as the keynote speaker at a future General
Assembly. And why not? The prayer stations are already in place, the
Roman Catholic practice of Lent and ashes to the forehead is everywhere,
and the Roman Catholic retreat is scheduled for a pre-Assembly event
this summer.
If you believe in the Bible- truly believe in it, not just parts of
it as Dan Boone does- then I could not warn you any more than I do now.
You are placing your child in danger by sending them to Eastern Nazarene
College, and frankly, there is hardly a Nazarene college now that has a
strong biblical foundation anymore.
So here is why Dr. Boone’s appointment bodes very badly, especially for those who have children of college age. Ecumenicists Promoting Roman Catholicism
Dr. Boone and Dr. McGee are both ecumenicists. Dr. McGee has
expressed to me in a past meeting with her and the ENC provost that
Roman Catholics are our brothers and sisters in Christ. On the ENC
website, you will find Roman Catholic churches on the list of available
churches to attend in the community. In the ENC bookstore (last time I
visited), you would also find Roman Catholic related books, including a
Roman Catholic bible, along with many books by authors that promote an
ecumenical belief system.
Dr. Boone, as Trevecca president, has long promoted yearly trips for
students to the Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky, a site that was the
spiritual home of the Roman Catholic mystic, Thomas Merton. Here at this
retreat, students from ENC have the opportunity to “practice the
silence”, which is nothing more than Catholic mysticism that has no
roots in biblical teaching. The “spiritual discipline” of silence is a
doctrine of demons. This retreat is scheduled for this year again: https://www.trevecca.edu/community-life/faith-service/spiritual-formation-retreat
Dr. Boone also has promoted the use of prayer labyrinths, and has had
one there for years at Trevecca. After I exposed this more fully, he
made excuses about it, and later re-named the labyrinth and called it
something else. It is not just Trevecca doing this: https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/labyrinths-prayer-stations-yoga-in-the-nazarene-church/ An Uneasy Accommodation To The LGBT Community
At Eastern Nazarene College, an LGBT support group was allowed to be
established at Munro Hall. I sent a letter to Dr. McGee wondering how
Bertha Munro would have felt, knowing an LGBT group was meeting in a
building named in her honor. I received a reply their from former
chaplain, with an excuse that the school does not necessarily sponsor
the group, which was a lame excuse because all they had to do was say no
to a group whose basic premise goes against Biblical values. And this
same chaplain spoke in a chapel service several years ago, all but
promoting a relaxation of biblical standards regarding homosexuality.
For Dr. Boone, all those things at ENC fit right in with his track
record. He is known for accommodating the LGBT agenda at Trevecca,
having allowed an extreme LGBT group to come on campus to have “a
dialog.” https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/a-response-to-dan-boones-report-on-soulforce/
And lest we forget, at the last General Assembly, Dr. Boone was one
of those most instrumental in arguing for postponing an attempt to
strengthen the Church statement on homosexuality. It will be interesting
to see what the arguments for this will be this year. I working on
evidence that indicates that the denomination is in for a very difficult
time regarding the homosexuality issue, which will lead to further
division in the Church. Hostility Towards Bible Believers
Dr. Boone has an utter disdain for Bible believing Christians, as
shown in this article I wrote a few years ago. He has compared Bible
Believing Christians to Islamic fundamentalists. He says that our
appetites have been whetted “by religious blood in the water.” (https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/dan-boone-goes-after-bible-believers-again/) Promoting False Teachers
Dr. Boone is certainly no Bible traditionalist. He has very bad
theology, he promotes false teachers, and he does not believe in the
creation as told in Genesis. He was a prominent member of the group,
Nazarenes Exploring Evolution, before it’s website suddenly closed down
for no apparent reason. Until it closed down, folks like Dr. Boone were
heartily endorsing the idea that God used evolution to create us. He was
not alone in that group, and was joined by many well-respected pastors,
professors and national leaders. Very frightening indeed.
In an older profile at Nazarene Theological Seminary, which is no longer posted, he said the following: “…I am deepening in the mystical forms of prayer.”
Dr. Boone promotes one of the leading teachers of contemplative
mysticism, false teacher Richard Foster. As an example, Foster makes the
amazing claim that non-believers can also practice the Christian
spiritual disciplines: “We need not be well advanced in matters of
theology to practice the Disciplines. Recent converts–for that matter
people who have yet to turn their lives over to Jesus Christ–can and
should practice them” (Celebration of Discipline, 1978, p. 2).
Dr. Boone has called Thomas Merton and Ignatius of Loyola spiritual giants.
Merton was not a spiritual giant- he was a monk who said that he was
“deeply impregnated with Sufism” because he believed that Eastern
mysticism was compatible with and could be incorporated into
Christianity. He placed Mary high on a level equal to Jesus, he prayed
to many catholic saints. He was influenced by Aldous Huxley, who found
enlightenment through hallucinogenic drugs.
Ignatius of Loyola was no wiser, and as the founder of the Jesuits he
brutally persecuted Christians and swore complete submission to the
pope. As most Roman Catholics do, he venerated Mary. He practiced
extreme asceticism, living in a cave for a year and never bathing. He
also promoted and taught visualization prayers, breath prayers, and
other unbiblical practices (Source: Way of Life). Yet, Dan Boone calls him a spiritual giant.
In a Letter to Pastors he wrote in 2009, Dr. Boone not only
erroneously claimed that the Roman Catholic church was the only church
for 1500 years after Christ, but he also exposed more error along with
his ecumenical get along with everyone philosophy. How is it that we
can “be one” with the Roman Catholic Church? “While Nazarenes are different from Catholics in very significant
ways, we believe that we will share eternity with them in the presence
of the Christ who prayed that we might be one.”
